Please Amplify: Social Cognition is inviting letters of intent for the upcoming special issue on Bias of Crowds model, edited by Keith Payne, Heidi Vuletich, Max Primbs, and Jimmy Calanchini. Due July 15: bit.ly/3R9e8KB

✨New paper out @nature.com ✨ For 8 weeks around the 2024 US election, we randomly assigned 2,000 people to use social media algos we built ourselves. Do engagement-based algorithms amplify intergroup, moral & emotional (IME) content—and does that distort how we see political norms? 🧵🔗 👇

Our 7th cohort of summer psychology interns arrives in June! summerpsych.com/interns

Do waitresses receive the same occupational prestige as waiters? Using German gendered occupational titles, we find that feminine job titles receive slightly lower prestige than masculine ones, especially among male-domindated occupations. Out now in Social Forces. doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...

@keithpayne.bsky.social, @jimmycalanchini.bsky.social, Heidi Vuletich and I are co-editing a new Social Cognition special issue titled "10 Years of Bias of Crowds – Reflections and Future Directions". Deadline for letters of intent is July 15th. bit.ly/3R9e8KB

Pretty map crew assemble! (And please don't forget that many of these concerns also apply to regional psychology).

Teaching DAGs sounds easy, until students actually have to make one themselves. A new tutorial lays out simple steps to make it clear and easy for students to understand. Draw process, selection, outcome, confounds. From Nathan J. Quimpo & Peter M. Steiner files.osf.io/v1/resources... #psych

A student from the African Institute of Mathematical Sciences Cameroon reached out to me -- he's writing his thesis on estimating the causal effect of insecticide-treated net use on malaria infections & has nobody in his immediate network who could provide a quick sanity check on his methodology.>

I'll be recruiting PhD students (2027 entry) and a postdoc to join the lab at Berkeley. Interests: • continuous person perception in interactive contexts • impression management and its biases • social perception in digital spaces Get in touch if there's overlap. Very excited for this next chapter!

They're looking for people with strong quant skills (psych/sociology/related fields) to work on subjective well-being across the lifecourse at Uni Lausanne! 1 PhD position + 1 Postdoc position career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree... career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

I want to defend punching down in academia. Scratch that. I want to defend punching, full stop. Up, down, sideways. The norm against critiquing junior scholars publicly comes from a good place but breaks something fundamental about how science works. New essay. open.substack.com/pub/michaeli...

My lab (u.osu.edu/spal/) and Ken Fujita’s lab (u.osu.edu/fujita/) at OSU are hiring a joint lab manager (a full-time postgraduate researcher) to start this summer! Come work in two incredibly fun labs in a thriving social psychology department. Application and more information soon to come!

#AcademicSky #PsychSciSky #PostDoc #SocialPsychology My collaborator Rose Meleady is advertising a postdoc position Requires expertise in intergroup contact/ESM studies vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/21... Rose is excellent -- high competence, high warmth. You'd won't find a better advisor!

Bluesky folks! Popping in here for a hot minute, I'm trying to look for this particular blog post before (by Thomas? Tom?) it used to be posted on twitter. Basically the main claim is: X is X because target population Y said so (I think his example here was the concept of a game). Ring any bells?

Does anyone know if SESP does individual talks? Or do they only have symposia?

We are inviting applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in a collaborative meta-science project on the effectiveness of data and code sharing policies in research-performing organizations. www.tue.nl/en/working-a...

New paper out in JPSP with @erichehman.bsky.social! We asked: What is the framework underlying our impressions of environments? Our large bottom-up study shows that people pay attention to 4 factors. We’re calling it the Environment Impressions Model: doi.org/10.1037/pspa...

I'm looking for US county-level well-being data by race. Does anyone have any leads?

Cats for everyone!

Found a really nice Dutch grant for turning our WARN-D pipeline that forecasts depression onset for young adults into an actionable system for people at risk. Grant requires a Dutch tech partner, preferably with an existing app that can be adapted to ours needs. Any interest? Please get in touch.

Do I know any USC (University of Southern California) staff, faculty, or students? I have a special library request that requires a current affiliation. Thank you ~

Today Dominic Packer & @jayvanbavel.bsky.social republished @minzlicht.bsky.social's post about "The Downfall of Stereotype Threat" in their widely-read The Power Of Us newsletter. I felt a certain way about that & the evidence presented there & thought I'd respond:

‼️ Postdoc recruitment Want to help build and understand the future of scientific collaboration? We are seeking a postdoc in computational meta‑science. 📍 UF (Gainesville, FL) 💰 $55–60k (1-3 years) 🧠 High intellectual agency 📅 Deadline March 10 Send us your idea. Details attached!

#AcademicSky #PrejudiceResearch New by @maxprimbs.bsky.social et al. Still trying to get my head around the findings, a bit of a head-scratcher I love this type of research question & research design, so I'll be sure to dig in.

hey @pwgtennant.bsky.social - thanks for your delightful talk at BU today on "Have DAGs Fulfilled their Promise in Epidemiology and Health Research?" One of my fav bits:

🚨🚨 My lab is hiring a Postdoc! 🚨🚨 Postdoc opening in my lab at Harvard Psych (start: Summer/Fall 2026). We study identity, group dynamics, language, & politics. Rolling review begins 3/14 Apply: academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/15806 Please repost + tag folks who might be a good fit! 👇

🚨 New paper! Think of a place you feel deeply attached to. When you're in that place, do you feel like your life is more meaningful? New work from @ashleykrause.bsky.social suggests you probably do! Just accepted at Journal of Environmental Psychology, we find places can give our life meaning 🧵

#AcademicSky I spend 1/2 my time asking people to peer review more, & other 1/2 complaining that filthy rich publishers should pay for our labour These aren't incompatible complaints Scientists DO need to review more (especially if publishing) Publishers DO need to pay reviewers

New blog post about the age-period-cohort identification problem! In which, for the first time ever, I ask "What's the mechanism?" and also suggest that sometimes you may actually *not* be interested in causal inference. www.the100.ci/2026/02/13/o...

I will be hiring a full-time pre-doctoral Research Professional to work with me at Chicago Booth. Know someone interested in studying conversation and connection? Please help spread the word! More details, including application instructions, are here: www.chicagobooth.edu/-/media/facu...

Our lab has the capacity to test ~500 uni students each semester If you’re a researcher in cognitive psychology or metascience and need data collection support, we’d love to collaborate. We can help collect high-quality data from a large student sample. Get in touch to discuss potential projects!

(Mic check 1-2-3) I'm on the job market🚨 I’m a social psychologist building computational models to study social cognition, attitudes, polarization, and how people update beliefs. Evidence accumulation models, Hierarchical Bayes, Agent-based models, NLP, etc. Interested in formal theorizing!

Postdoc position! Myself and @jordanaxt.bsky.social are seeking applications for a shared post-doctoral researcher at McGill, beginning Fall 2026. Topic area broadly centered on intergroup dynamics, prejudice, discrimination Full description here: hehmanlab.org/ad 1/2

*sweating* Do I want to save changes to my dataset???? Did I make changes to my dataset?????

Basic questions like "how many participants are in the dataset?" can produce surprisingly different answers between analysts. Results from students in my class in data wrangling in tidyverse, who are good at wrangling but still have to make semi-subjective choices:

New preprint! So, what's a multiverse analysis good for anyway?> With @jessicahullman.bsky.social and @statmodeling.bsky.social juliarohrer.com/wp-content/u...

We're pleased to announce Dr Charlotte Pennington @drcpennington.bsky.social, author of "A Student’s Guide to Open Science: Using the Replication Crisis to Reform Psychology", will be a keynote speaker at the UKRN conference in July 2026! #ukrn2026joinus #OpenResearch #Research

For a weekly seminar class, I'm looking for pairings of psych popularization with scholarly take-downs of the underlying research. I want students to see examples of how shoddy research gets hyped.

New paper led by Kelsey Neuenswander looking at perceptual exposure to fat/thin bodies and anti-fat attitudes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Played around with Causion by @isager.bsky.social It's an impressive teaching tool for causal inference... and it also really pretty. Amazing color scheme and slick interface. Shown below a demonstration of an extended front-door DAG in Causion.

This nicely maps onto this slide which I like to use

New blog post introducing Causion - a web app for causal inference teaching and learning: pedermisager.org/blog/causion....

After years in academia, I’m exploring data science and research roles in industry. I'm a quant. social scientist (PhD Yale ’24, NYU) focused on causal inference, experiments, and large-scale data. Feel free to get in touch or share; all leads appreciated. [email protected]

AMPPS is a participating journal for the Editorial Fellowships. A great opportunity to get hands-on editorial experience. Please apply and RT. Excited to potentially work with you.

Super excited to see that somebody finally wrote about this 🥳 If you do research about research, you really need causal thinking (just like when you do research about anything else really).

Call for entries 📣 The international €350K #EinsteinFoundationAward honors researchers and institutions across all scientific disciplines working to advance #research quality and integrity. Deadline: April 30, 2026 Please share! 🌍 ➡️ award.einsteinfoundation.de #OpenScience #reproducibility

We're doing summerpsych.com again this year! PhD curious undergrads, come hang out at the CSI lab, help us push forward a project and develop your social science chops Applications are due March 1st:

An alle Psycholog*innen, die an einem MPI promoviert haben -- ist jemand von euch beim DGPs-Kongress in Luxemburg und hat Lust an einem Symposium zum Thema Promotion teilzunehmen? Eine Studentin von uns organisiert das und sucht noch jemanden!

Is anyone here an expert on #rstats ellmer structured data? It works when I define the JSON schema of an object A containing an array of object B, but not when I read object B from JSON schema and use type_object and type_array to set up object A. Reprex: gist.github.com/debruine/d35...